When it comes to writing my books for publishers I’ll be sticking with Word for the foreseeable future. The main reason is that’s what the publishers want, but the other is Word’s track changes feature which is an absolute necessity when dealing with co-authors and editors. However, at work we’re using Google Drive so I’ve been looking into some of the deeper tools available there and I’ve discovered that Google Drive also has a track changes feature, named “See revision history” which can be found under the file menu or by typing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-g.
I will say that see revision history if more like stepping through the history of a Wikipedia page, than Word’s track changes, but it is definitely a step in the right direction.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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